Horrible experience. My Gf's iPad is now back to stock 4.2 because no matter what I did I couldn't get it to restore the data that was on there and still come back to the home screen. It would restore then go to the progress bar with the apple on top and freeze up. iTunes would register all the data as being there and even act as if it were syncing like normal then it would freeze up. Holding home and power only brought it back to the progress bar screen which would freeze at exactly the same place every time.

The only thing I could do was run Blackra1n to get it into DFU and restore again.

After retrying 3 times, reinstalling iTunes 3 times, reinstalling windows twice and finally trying to put the backup on my Mac and try nothing worked. So now its back to scratch!! I'm really pissed!

Weird. I went home last night, plugged my iPad into my laptop and did a sync (still with 3.2.2) to get a current backup and make sure everything was up to date. After that, I did the upgrade to 4.2.1 and everything took about 20-25 minutes to run (download and install and reboot of the iPad) when it finally came back up as 4.2.1.

I had never jailbroken my iPad (and don't plan on it - I have yet to need to do something I can't with iOS) so I have a feeling that was part of the success.

Weird. I went home last night, plugged my iPad into my laptop and did a sync (still with 3.2.2) to get a current backup and make sure everything was up to date. After that, I did the upgrade to 4.2.1 and everything took about 20-25 minutes to run (download and install and reboot of the iPad) when it finally came back up as 4.2.1.

I had never jailbroken my iPad (and don't plan on it - I have yet to need to do something I can't with iOS) so I have a feeling that was part of the success.

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Nope, hers was stock 3.2.2.

Look around the apple forum..there are many many other people experiencing the same thing.

I don't know what to tell you. I do wonder, based off the link you posted, just how many were jailbroken in that list. I have jailbroken a couple touches for my friends and they have never played nicely with updates after (the ipods.) For a vanilla 3.2.2 not to take the update doesnt make sense.

Update went fine until my Vista PC froze up solid. The pad was halfway through the update. I unplugged my iPad and held down both buttons for ten seconds, it beeped and the apple popped up, restarted my PC and once iTunes opened I plugged it back in and it went great, about 25 minutes for everything after the problem. Nothing lost, everything works like it should. I'm happy now.

I backed up my iPad all last night (took forever) then after work this evening i DL'd and installed the update 4.2

After a few minutes I received an error message saying "couldn't update the iPad" or something like that

Now i have to completely restore the iPad so I guess I'm going to lose everything on there.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the backup backed everything up.

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As a last resort, you should check your Recycle Bin for your old back-up (3.2.2). If necessary, you can use that to go back to the old OS using iTunes. You would go to the Summary screen, press Shift while you click the Restore button, and then select the old restore file. Restore will run and put you back to your last working 3.2.2 config. A few people have used this to remove 4.2.1 because they don't like it.

Mine went very easy and I actually did it remotely with team viewer. I was watching the football game while doing it via my iPhone. I really am digging this app ( thanks to a thread here ). Took about 2 hours total with adding new movies and music from a computer switch over the day before.

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